Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I was reading Dead Funny as people were pushing back against Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel on the orders of the Trump administration. Don't let anyone tell you that pushback didn't matter. It did. And it does. And we're going to need more of it because they're not stopping.

Recommended reading: Rudolph Herzog's book about humor — what jokes were allowed, what jokes weren't, what jokes could get you imprisoned, what jokes could get you shot — during the Third Reich. It's sobering reading right now, as Trump attacks comedians, late night talk show hosts, and actors.

AMEN.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

When @fastlerner.bsky.social reported in April that the EPA was going to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data from most polluters, it wouldn't admit it was eliminating the requirements. Today it announced the change, saying it's "cutting unnecessary red tape" & "unleashing American energy."

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

I wrote a book proposal about the history of anti-abortion disinformation in the U.S. It starts in the 19th century and explains how anti-abortion disinfo began as a white supremacist project driven by racist anxieties around the end of chattel slavery and rising immigration. Nobody wanted to buy it

Headlines read "RFK Jr faces a grilling" It's not a grilling... it's just him against reality

please be safe out there friends. i would caution folks not to order delivery if possible while this shit is happening given the fact that they’ve been targeting delivery drivers in dc

Recent polling shows that 8 in 10 DC residents oppose the Trump administration’s actions.

this LLC owner is crying in the club because we have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor to help make our publication sustainable. Help grow Autonomy News! 💙💚

Tonight in Washington D.C. The sign reads: “The Bondi order is unlawful you are not obligated to follow it”

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter. www.abc15.com/news/state/m...

Every so often, I see people argue that Trump hasn't done anything to attack trans people's rights. This is absolutely wild to me because... well, he has. I'm going to share some examples of things he did in his first 6 months, referencing the @glaad.bsky.social Trump Tracker. 🧵

Morning Briefing: The Return to the Land, a neo-fascist White Nationalist movement, is building a 'Whites only community' community in Arkansas — with plans to build similar communities in the South and Appalachia.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name. wapo.st/3GZuXCW

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Billionaires on jets are doing this, not you.

Republican election clerks in Colorado say a GOP strategist claiming to work with the Trump administration asked for insider access to voting systems. They refused. #copolitics

Happening now in Camarillo, protesters are desperately facing off against ICE to try to defend America’s farm workers. /

goodnight, go watch or listen to my podcast because the new york times sucks

primary all of them. fuck this noise

Really can’t shake the feeling that people didn’t talk enough about the fact that the shooting yesterday of firefighters by a sniper In Idaho was on the 24 year anniversary of the Aryan nations compound being burned to the ground.

“So, Maurice, as you can see, this is your spaceship control panel. Upon your arrival in space, you will be henceforth known as ‘the Space Cowboy.’”

Call your dem senators now.

I was horrified and deeply disappointed by Dr. Robert Malone’s statement during ACIP that indicated 250 pediatric flu deaths this season were “a modest number.” via Serese Marotta of @vaxyourfam.bsky.social - www.linkedin.com/posts/serese...

If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

Senate Republicans dropped a nearly 1,000-page “Big Beautiful Bill” in the DEAD OF THE NIGHT. And they want to vote on it TODAY. Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.

Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.

They cannot arrest everyone.

this from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is really smart. You should watch it.

this book is phenomenal. grim but I would recommend it to anyone who's wants to understand more of how we got to this point in american politics/daily life. and it's $3!

There are now 59,000 people in immigration detention. Almost half have no criminal record www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...

After resigning in disgrace, Cuomo attacked the women he harassed with vexatious, punitive legal filings meant to bankrupt and humiliate them, and threatened to sue them for defamation. He wanted them to shut up. At great personal risk, they didn’t.

The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged. Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

Diego Luna's ode to LA and immigrants on Jimmy Kimmel Live is a must-see for anyone bored at work right now. Share it on LinkedIn!

Rep. Ruiz: "Did you read the report and fact check its sources?" Kennedy: "I did not fact check." Rep. Ruiz: " Why did the report include citations to sources that don't even exist?" Kennedy: "The foundational assertions were accurate." Rep. Ruiz: "They don't exist!"

In a time of near constant “holy shits” this is a 90th percentile holy shit.

Question for the Marines: what are you Semper Fi to? Each other, or some old guy who tells you what to do

I am glad that today the governor signed a new law repealing New York's ban on providing food and water to people waiting in line to vote. However, it should be clearly noted that this was the result of successful litigation brought by the Brooklyn NAACP -- which the state fought and lost in court.

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

Full local news coverage by KTLA 5 ⬇️ Pasadena is currently the target of multiple ICE raids. Masked plainclothes agents wearing bulletproof vests were also seen questioning men on a park bench—arresting them along with other day laborers. The men were put into an unmarked minivan & taken away.

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

We will not go silently and let the Supreme Court + our Government erode our rights to our bodies, genders, choices, and futures. ACT UP FIGHT BACK!